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Definition of Crowning
1. Adjective. Representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment. "The crowning accomplishment of his career"
2. Adjective. Forming or providing a crown or summit. "Her hair was her crowning glory"
Definition of Crowning
1. Verb. (present participle of crown) ¹
2. Adjective. Supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity. ¹
3. Noun. A coronation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crowning
1. crown [v] - See also: crown
Medical Definition of Crowning
1. 1. Preparation of the natural crown of a tooth and covering the prepared crown with a veneer of suitable dental material (gold or non-precious metal casting, porcelain, plastic, or combinations). 2. That stage of childbirth when the foetal head has negotiated the pelvic outlet and the largest diameter of the head is encircled by the vulvar ring. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowning
Literary usage of Crowning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"THE crowning OF TUB COLUMN, AND CRUSHING OF THE PEDESTAL. IT was said in tbe
debate on the Navigation Laws, in the best speech made on the Liberal side, ..."
2. Memorials of a Southern Planter by Susan Dabney Smedes (1888)
"THE crowning BLESSING. THE crowning blessing of our lives came in these days of
poverty and toil. The beloved head of the house took his baptismal vows on ..."
3. Memorials of a Southern Planter by Susan Dabney Smedes (1887)
"THE crowning BLESSING. THE crowning blessing of our lives came in these days of
poverty and toil. The beloved head of the house took his baptismal vows on ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1843)
"So mote it be 1' THE crowning HOUR. AND OTHER POEMS. ... The ' crowning hour' is
the period when COLUMBUS first discovers land from the quarter deck of his ..."
5. The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With that of His by Jameson (Anna), Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake (1872)
"St. Luke omits the incident of the crowning with thorns and the mocking altogether.
This difference between the terms ' scarlet' and ' purple' is not ..."
6. A Life for Liberty: Anti-slavery and Other Letters of Sallie Holley by Sallie Holley (1899)
"... XI THE crowning QUALITY " Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all
the passion of great hearts." LOWELL. " 'T'HE crest of time now reached by ..."
7. Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer (1921)
"THE crowning GIFT1 I have had courage to accuse; And a fine wit that could upbraid;
And a nice cunning that could bruise; And a shrewd wisdom, ..."
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